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The Austro-Hungarian House of Hapsburg would say the Serbs/Bosnians started World War 1 when a Serbian man killed Archduke Francis Ferdinand Austria in June 1914. Truthfully, the problem and impetus and blame lies with the Austro-Hungarian leadership. They chose to kill Serbians in response to the assassination. WW1 did not start out as a world war but rather a war of the rulers trying to subdue the peons of Serbia under their control. This then escalated to a European war when Austria requested the Germans to help them with the war. The Germans failed to ask just what was the goal of the Austrians in war. They did not realize that the issue was to subdue the Serbians. The Germans thought the war issues were a was over the many convoluted issues that had existed between European nations for hundreds of years.

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